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Pincus: Zero of 40,000 new App Store games sustained top 50 ranks
“You know, there was something like 40,000 new games launched last year in the app store and zero, you know, became top 10 hits and zero even sustained top 25 or 50.”
Bier: Hitting #1 in US App Store can now require 300K daily installs
“It used to be, like, a 100,080 to a 100,000 installs but now you have these companies that are just spending extraordinary amounts on ads and, or injecting it into one of their other apps. So between Threads, Timu, and all these other apps that are kind of spe…”
Rachitsky: Google Gemini reached number one on the App Store above ChatGPT
“So just last week, Gemini, Google Gemini hit the number one app in the App Store. I have it right here. It's still number one in the App Store. It's above ChatGPT.”
Steve Jobs personally called developers to explain early App Store rejections
“So the executive team at Apple, including Steve were actually calling developers to inform them that their apps were not going to be approved, that they were taken off the off the app store kind of like trying to avoid them going to the press and just like bei…”
Bier: Sarahah reached number one in US App Store despite being in Arabic
“I looked on the app store and the number one app In the United States was an app called Saraha. And it was for sending anonymous messages by adding a link to your Snapchat story. But the thing that was most interesting was the entire app was in Arabic. The num…”